Mission impossible

Guess what? I realized yesterday that my children have head lice on their hair. what a scary thing! There was a notice from school saying children were infested with head lice a few months ago and we did a check. Now that it was many months I never really think it was possible to be "lucky" to catch the litlle bugs but yucks! I was combing Channery's hair and realized she has them. After school, I quickly checked the boys as they were really unkempt and I nearly had a heart attack- what a horrible fright. Their hairs had grown quite long and I could see lots of eggs on them and some crawling around.

After we went to buy flea bomb, Joe and I went to pharmacy and got the necessary lotions and combs and set to work. Boys really have to be checked for their heads as they were really horribly infested with lice. The fact that Ruby time they were so close to their friends and kept heading each other could have made it a heaven for the lice and nits. The boys were always so reluctant to take their baths could also means they never really wash their hairs properly.

The lotion was supposed to have killed all the little bugs but today I still find some living on their hairs after their hair cuts. yes I brought the boys to the hairdresser to cut their hair short. Think it will really take a long time to kill all. Done all the washing of pillow cases and bedsheets plus setting off flea bombs in all the rooms so hopefully the situation is controlled.

REad about it that there was not an issue of cleanliness but just contact. No way! I am going to make sure the little bugs don't find their way in my house. That means boys must be checked every week plus regularly bathing and washing their hairs.

Read that it was quite impossible to avoid if many kids have them in school.

Have them once when I was young and made to put on the smelling solution. Somehow the lotion I applied on them seems not that strong. The girls are okay as we did the combing on them and could not find any traces of the lice. Will do the solution again in a weeks time so that the eggs would have hatched and could be comed out. Now can seem to find some eggs sticking to the hairs.